Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin’s War. Retribution Was Swift. – The New York Times

Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin’s War. Retribution Was Swift.

Oleg Tinkov spoke out against his country’s war in Ukraine. Now he is in hiding. In an exclusive interview he said, “I don’t believe in Russia’s future’’ under Vladimir Putin.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/world/europe/oligarch-putin-oleg-tinkov.html

“I’ve realized that Russia, as a country, no longer exists,” Mr. Tinkov said, predicting that Mr. Putin would stay in power a long time. “I believed that the Putin regime was bad. But of course, I had no idea that it would take on such catastrophic scale.”